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If we adopt these definitions,beliefis the general term for thinking that a proposition (such as evolution) is true, withacceptancebeing a more restricted subset (Fig.1). The terms “non-belief” and “non-believer” can, however, easily be interpreted as implying some kind of equivalence be...
The female gamete contributed by the mother during reproduction is called the egg cell (also known as the ovum or secondary oocyte). It contains half of the genetic information (i.e., 23 individual human chromosomes) that will combine with the other half of the genetic information carried by...
called accessory proteins. DMVs or membrane rearrangements can be an invagination towards the lumen of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) or other organelles, or an extrusion of the ER membrane. Since DMVs originate from the endoplasmic reticulum, it is normal to observe a stressed and dysfunctional ...
Another common example of misunderstanding of NOS in evolution education is the importance of what is usually called simply “inference” [but, more accurately, “inductive inference” (Ziman2000)], that is, the extrapolation from observations to a larger pattern that is not observed directly. One...
Jim Clark's time with Lotus is the stuff of legend; what would have been had he raced for Aston Martin? At Zandvoort, Salvadori could not do much with the Aston Martin. The car was just slow, and a second opinion was sought. Stirling Moss, a member of ...
It is now 50 years since Milton Friedman set out his doctrine that “The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits.” This paper seeks to add fresh and compelling new evidence of why Lynn Stout was correct in her resolute critique of t
A new scripting language called Groovy is built on Java. Java has lost some ground to PHP and Ruby for server side programming because they are eas- ier. Groovy is simple, borrows from Ruby, but draws on Java programming skills and library knowledge. Language interpreters for the Ruby and ...
There was a time when it appeared as if the actor's main purpose onscreen would be to demonstrate what happens when the neck of a Gap t-shirt loses its elasticity. He wouldn't allow it.
In this example, the elegance is a combination of how Ruby works, and a Rails library calledActiveSupportthat is a Domain Specific Language that extends Ruby. There's a special satisfaction when you read a well-written novel and you go over a turn of phrase and think, "wow, wh...